LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Milkman Peter Lushington
Milkman Peter Lushington is thanked for his efforts by Ray Isaac, Eastbourne branch chairman. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Dinghy (9)
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 7.38 on the morning of the 3rd September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two boys were at the Nab Light in a small sailing dinghy and needed a tow to Bembridge. They had been drifting...
Dangerous Gas on Blazing Fishing Vessel
Tynemouth's Arun class lifeboat George and Olive Turner was called to the aid of the fishing vessel Kalisto which caught fire on 15 September 1990.
The two crew had jumped overboard and been airlifted ashore, but... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Southwards and Westwards
Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 12.37 on the afternoon of the 13th of November, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the vessel Drop- ford was towing the fishing vessel Southwards, which had engine trouble, towards Morecambe...
In the Beginning...
The oak of the RNLI grew from the acorn of Sir William Hillary's famous Appeal to the British Nation in 1823.
In the nature of nineteenth century writings the Appeal is too fulsome to reproduce in its entirety. Extracts...
Category: Articles
The Minesweeper Mastiff and Spartel
NOV. 2 0 T H . - MARGATE, KENT. At 10.45 A.M. the coastguard reported that a minesweeper was sinking, as a result of enemy action, a mile east of the Tongue Light-vessel. The minesweeper was the Mastiff. Five minutes later the motor...
A Bronze Medal Service at Blyth
ABOUT five in the evening of 23rd December, 1938, the coastguard rang up the life-boat station at Blyth, Northumberland, to report a ship, firing rockets and blowing her whistle, about three miles east of Newbiggin Point. At 5.15 the motor...
Category: Services
Spray
At 12.30 a.m. on 6th October, 1966, the Dutch coaster Spray, of Joure, was reported aground on Newcombe sands, about four hundred yards from Lowestoft harbour entrance, and was signalling by light for life-boat assistance. The life-boat...
Aileena, of Glasgow
JUNE 5TH. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. At eleven in the morning the Castletown coastguard reported a small yacht in Derbyhaven Bay flying a signal. A later message said that she had lost her small boat and that her cable had parted. A...
Tringer
AUXILIARY CUTTER TOWED TO PORTSMOUTH Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 10.12 on the evening of Sunday the 25th August, 1963, the Bembridge coastguard told the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen half a mile north of No Mans Land...